Developers Are Not the Enemy! The Need for Usable Security APIs.

Green, M., & Smith, M. (2016). Developers Are Not the Enemy! The Need for Usable Security APIs. IEEE Security & Privacy, 40-46.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2016

Pages

40-46

DOI

10.1109/msp.2016.111

DOI registrant

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2016.111

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• Law of Conservation of Complexity
  • In cryptography and security engineering, strong-default security raises operational complexity in key management and recovery, while permissive defaults shift it to incident response and breach remediation.

    This sourceDocuments that secure-by-default design relocates complexity rather than removing it — strong cryptographic defaults push operational burden onto key management, recovery, and API ergonomics, while permissive defaults push it onto incident response — supporting the security-engineering instance of complexity allocation.

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